A Mouse Can Roar, Even in Djukanovic’s Montenegro

For the first time, a former ruling party insider is not passively awaiting his arranged sacrifice by ‘the boss’ on the altar of Montenegro’s EU aspirations.

When Montenegro started accession talks with the European Union more than six years ago, betting stores could begin to offer odds on which of the ruling party’s officials and allies might end up being sacrificed in the pretence that the government actually cared about the fight against corruption – and on who, among the sacrificed, would dare publicize what they knew.

There is no logic in these sacrifices. Some of those who have participated in the best-documented abuses in Montenegro have still gone on to take the highest positions in the administration.

Let us recall the “audio recordings affair”, for example, and its main actor, Zoran Jelic. He has been promoted from being a staff member of the Employment Agency and a member of parliament to a member of the State Audit Institution’s Senate.

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